We offer these tidbits from the weekend and Monday news involving members of the Jewish community [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — Many schools across Israel distribute yahrzeit candles for students and their families to light on the evening of Yom Hashoah. Affixed to the candle is the name of a Holocaust victim and a QR code (a type of barcode) which one can scan to learn about that person. As 6
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Gedaliah Borvick, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), a Black composer unfamiliar to most concert goers, wrote a delightful Sinfonietta for Strings, the opening selection in the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday evening concert at the Conrad in La Jolla. The three-movement work, Sonata Allegro, Song Form, Rondo, consisted of standard classical
Israeli-Born Conductor Yaniv Dinur Shines for San Diego Symphony Orchestra in La Jolla Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel is currently in an interim period of religious and national holidays which will be over by the end of May. The Knesset is on vacation while hopefully intense negotiations are being held in President Herzog’s residence, seeking to compromise on the proposed judicial system legislation. These negotiations
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Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA
The recent passing of Topol, the Israeli actor who played Tevye in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof, evoked a lot of Fiddler-related memories. Including Topol and beginning at Zero Mostel, I’ve seen at least five actors in the role, each with his own likeable take. [Joel H. Cohen]
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Israel, Jewish Celebrities, Joel H. Cohen, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Published by Reuters By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch BOSTON (Reuters) -A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air Force National Guard accused of leaking highly classified military intelligence records online made his initial appearance before a federal judge in Boston on Friday to face charges he unlawfully removed and retained classified materials. Jack Douglas
News of Jewish interest broke on Tuesday at the International, National, State and Local Levels: [Donald H.Harrison]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — “What kept me going was my belief in G-d and the hope to be able to be reunited with my family,” said Ben Midler as he recalls his harrowing experience as a child at the Auschwitz concentration camp where his entire family was murdered. Now, at 95, the San Diego
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Holocaust, International, Israel, San Diego CountyNews developments on Monday, April 10, found Jewish officials playing important roles at the international, national and local levels. [Donald H. Harrison]
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(JNS) In a video message, Rabbi Leo Dee—whose wife, Lucy, 48, and daughters, Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, were murdered in a terrorist attack—called for the observance of April 10 as “Dees Day.” “Today, we differentiate between good and evil, right and wrong,” he said. Dee described being unable to reach his wife and daughters,
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By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — It’s Pesach. And Ramadan. It’s also Easter, but the Christians here are below the line of violence, and all is peaceful as far as they are concerned. There has been some killing. Two sisters gunned down in the Jordan Valley, with their mother in a very serious condition. And
Israel Operating on Less Than a Full Tank Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — This year’s Passover festival began under the cloud that has enveloped Israel ever since the mass demonstrations protesting the so-called “legal reform” began. Yet preparations for the festival went ahead in the customary fashion, with spring cleaning and food purchases and preparations much as usual. By a quirk
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Opinion
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Noah Shufuntinsky (Westside Gravy), who was raised in San Diego and began writing songs and beats at age 7, performs in a newly released song that brings together the unique voices and diverse faces of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world. To celebrate the State of Israel’s
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel’s political, social, and military prospects have all taken a hit this year following the installation of the current government coalition, headed by the redoubtable Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu. While the right wing, religious, and nationalistic parties won a decisive electoral majority, the difference in the popular
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Israel, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA